Places rbowptown Wants to Go

This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.

Imagine playing a version of Legends of the Hidden Temple, but with a distinctly Southern Gothic flare.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

This restaurant, art gallery, and nightlife hot spot is a love letter to Lagos from St. Louis.

The oldest soda fountain in St. Louis has been serving up treats for more than a century.

Hamissi Mamba and Nadia Nijimbere opened this community-minded restaurant serving dishes from their native Burundi.

Chicago’s last original drive-in restaurant is a family-run hot dog joint that started in 1948.

This old-fashioned confectionary has been family owned and operated for more than a century.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

The oldest continually used church in Minneapolis also sells great meat pies.

This 1960s kinetic artwork has been restored and is once again whirling away in downtown Minneapolis.

A warehouse for all of your architectural details.

This French Canadian classic is a specialty of the oldest continually used church in Minneapolis.

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

Come for the giant taxidermy lion, stay for the knick knacks at this Minneapolis curiosity shop.